An oocyte is a cell in an ovary which may undergo meiotic division to form an egg. Primary oocytes are formed between three and eight months of gestation in the human embryo and remain arrested in prophase of meiotic division I until the female becomes sexually mature.
The youngest and eldest of seven sister healers.
We are cells in our mothers’ ovaries when our mothers are embryos in our grandmothers’ uteruses.
A new studio space for healing and community - before, a pentecostal church.
We are inside our grandmothers and mothers as early as three months of our mothers being in utero of our grandmothers.
January 1955.
Blink! The original awe. Pride. Immense pride to be born of these women, of this lineage.
Essential dignity. Soul. Conception. Realization.
One month in, mom’s dad dies along with the company. Money, not the most essential resource.
Division, desperation, and despair - a full-bodied lamentation from the twelfth house of grief and mystery. Feeling and knowing converge.
Some are laughing. Some are crying. Like when I was three and came down crying. They were laughing. Joni Mitchel said “Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.”
40 more breaths. An epsom salt bath.
One by one, my four grandparents sweep up from under me. Horizontally. They’ve given me all they’ve got. “Just get to work. We have nothing else to say. We’re behind you fully. The connection is complete. Now stay attuned.”
Emerge. Embody. Emanate.
Together forever and yet holding steady in the “I am here. And you are there.”
Unyolk.